U.S. Senator John Cornyn visited Lufkin High School to see how the GEAR UP program has improved graduation rates and college enrollment by raising awareness with students and families of post-secondary options.

Lufkin ISD participates in the Summer Food Service Program (SFSP), a federally-funded program administered in Texas by the Texas Department of Agriculture. Click on this post to see the locations and dates where food will be served.

This post includes photos of the 2019 Lufkin High School graduates before they crossed the stage at Abe Martin Stadium. Best of luck to all of our grads!

Eleven LHS students were awarded the Texas Music Scholar Award for their outstanding scholastic merit, musicianship, and citizenship.

60,000 books have been donated by Book Buddies of East Texas to children in the East Texas area with 26,000 of those books going to students at Lufkin ISD. 

Ali Khurshid was named Valedictorian and Anisha Rao was named Salutatorian of the 2019 graduating class at the Lufkin ISD Education Foundation’s Panthers of Prestige banquet last night.

At the May Lufkin ISD School Board Meeting, Allyson Langston and Don Muhlbach were sworn in to serve another term on the school board.

Drs. Kavitha and Lenin Pinnamaneni presented a check in the amount of $30,000 to Lufkin ISD Superintendent Lynn Torres to be used for the Lufkin Middle School Success Initiative. They both feel that education is the key to future success and would encourage everyone to unite to support our students.